Author: Ann Williams

“New Artist Spotlight” is a recurring editorial series featuring artists who have recently joined Artsy’s roster of gallery partners.Self-taught French artist Alexis Ralaivao is fascinated by small details. Her oil paintings, whether close-ups of sparkling jewels or cropped portraits of the human figure, exude a palpable sensuality that transforms everyday scenes into cherished moments. A student of The Artsy Vanguard 2022, Ralaivaok draws inspiration from Dutch Golden Age masters such as Johannes Vermeer and Gerard ter Borch, focusing obsessive attention to the details of lived experiences in his genre paintings, which highlight clothing, flesh, glass, metal. , and jewelry. Now…

XVII By the end of the 19th century, Europe was beginning to see China as more than the legendary land of Marco Polo. As luxury goods—especially porcelain—flowed to the West and scientific tools and ideas increased to the East, the two civilizations became slightly more familiar and enviable. This period of what might be called respectable greed ushered in a golden age of collecting, bought, commissioned or simply collected by the French court of Versailles, then the finest in Europe, and its Chinese counterpart, the imperial court of the Forbidden City in Beijing. the two worldsNow, the remnants of those…

Ghanaian sculptor, textile and installation artist Ibrahim Mahama has won the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award, an award created last year by the Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation in honor of the late artist’s legacy. Mahama will receive $75,000 and appear in a public program at Dia this fall. The prize will be awarded annually until 2033.”My mentor Kąrî’káchä Seid’ou first introduced me to Gilliam’s important work as a student, and he has had a profound influence on me ever since,” Mahama said in a statement. “The most important aspect of any community is the sharing of their…

On a brisk Friday morning in early March, James Fuentes led a parade of art workers, press and members of Japanese-American painter Kikuo Saito’s extended family from the painter’s basement studio in Soho to his new gallery in Tribeca. The art dealer was the artist’s first time in the 2,500 square meter building Color Codes, a series of large-scale monochromatic paintings by Saito in the early 1990s. He was amazed by its high ceilings and the skylight in the back room, which allowed daylight to flood the entire space. “I appreciate being centrally located, which we’ve never been,” Fuentes said…

ArtBrady NgWolfgang Tillmans, Window Left Open, 2023. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York/Hong Kong; Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne; and Maureen Paley, London.Izumi Kato, Without a title, 2023. ©2023 Izumi Kato. By the artist and Perrotin. The opening of the Venice Biennale is less than a month away, but for now, the great and the good of the art world will be coming to Hong Kong for Art Basel. The fair is returning to its pre-2020 scale, with more than 240 galleries from 40 countries setting up booths and collectors gathering for new acquisitions. There, they will also find a litany of…

Since its inception in the 19th century, the Venice Biennale has invited artists to represent their countries in national pavilions. But art’s power to transcend and transcend national — and other — borders is a driving force at the 60th Venice Biennale (April 20-November 24), which focuses on marginalized identities and the Global South. The curator Adriano Pedrosa describes his subject, Foreigners everywhere, as a “call to action” as the number of forcibly displaced people around the world has reached a record high. Many Asian artists participating in this year’s pavilions seem to have heeded the call. Here’s a guide…

Now, Yang Fudong’s new film will be screened on the 110 m wide facade of the M+ museum every evening until June. Sparrow in the Sea He depicts Hongkongers as “brave little birds” among the city’s pockets of urban beauty and unexpected serenity. Starting last September, Yang and his team spent nine days filming in locations in Hong Kong that were new to the Shanghai artist, such as local beaches and old towns. The artist’s first site-specific urban project was commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, with support from UBS.Shanghai-based artist Yang Fudong Courtesy of the artistYang’s films and photographs…

Toronto filmmakers, artists and writers are campaigning to divest arts funder Scotiabank from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. Today, March 26, a coalition of activists announced the launch of “No Arms in the Arts,” an effort targeting programs sponsored by Canada’s financial institutions, including the Hot Docs Film Festival, Contact Photography Festival, Scotiabank Giller Prize. , and the Toronto Art Biennial. The campaign was launched by members of Film Workers for Palestine, Writers Against the War on Gaza, Artists Against Artwashing and CanLit Responds. today Around the corner from the Hot Docs cinema. As organizers of the Hot Docs festival…

The Goodman Gallery has announced a representation of the legacy of the late Ghanaian painter Atta Kwami, in collaboration with the Beardsmore Gallery in London. Kwami lived and worked between the UK and her native Ghana until her death in 2021, the same year she was posthumously awarded the Maria Lassnig Award. This May a new solo exhibition of the artist’s work will be held at London’s Goodman Gallery in Cork Street.Born in 1956, Kwami was a prolific creator whose work has been the subject of major public art commissions and solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as the Smithsonian…

One of London’s most famous plants has been replicated in the Para Site contemporary art center by Hong Kong artist Trevor Yeung. His new solo show, Soft breath, recreates an episode of the so-called “fuck tree” that lives in a secluded part of Hampstead Heath. The oak’s roots grow at an angle that places its trunk close to the ground, allowing one, two or more people to lean over it. Human intervention has also shaped the tree: the heather lovers rub it so often that parts of the bark are smoothed.”This tree is the physical embodiment of desire, the most…